Lecture
PublicEcological Issues Unveil the Unlived Soul Life of our Time
Jungian Keynotes Lecture Series
- 8 Sep 2026
- 15:00–16:45
- ISAP Zürich / Zoom
- Autumn Semester 2026
- Lecture
The ecological crisis has its roots and solutions in the way we think and act. As our time has lost the soul dimension, key psychological values appear projected concretely onto core themes of today, overcharging them, mostly with destructive ecological effects. The symbolic analysis of ecological problems unveils, in revealing images, the unlived soul of our time and helps to ground our lives again in soul and natural processes, honouring the basic unity between human beings and nature. Analytical Psychology offers crucial resources for the doubly needed ecological and personal-cultural turnaround.
About the Speaker

Brigitte Egger
Dr. sc. nat. ETH
Born 1951 to scientific parents who moved around Switzerland, she developed a passion for scientific research as a child, as a way to honour nature and discover more about the mystery of life. She even won a 1st prize with a research on plant ecology at «la science appelle les jeunes». During her biology studies she came to realize how soul was sorely …